Is it illegal to burn to a CD a copyrighted audio conversion testimony?

[Ana_v]

I listened to Jennifer Fulwiler’s atheist-to-Catholic conversion story (its very good!) a while back. Recently, I really wanted an older friend of mine from my parish to listen to it, but knowing him, and based on past experiences with videos I’ve sent him, since he virtually only checks his email (including personal one) while at work, if I emailed it to him he likely wouldn’t listen to it because of the length (he’d put it off, or have trouble opening the file – not very tech savy).

The audio is permitted to be dowloaded as an MP3 file. Since it is copyrighted, I would like to know if it is illegal to burn the MP3 file onto a CD and give it to him to listen to in his car (he drives 40 minutes to and from the parish, where he works and attends daily Mass)?

 

[Samuel63]

If you purchased the CD and are putting MP3 files on your player to listen more conveniently, then that is OK.

If you did not purchase the CD and are copying/listening, it is not OK. You should delete the copied files.

If the owner of a validly purchased CD is loaning it to you, you can listen. In the gray area, you can copy in this case and listen but delete when finished, meaning delete pretty quickly.

Comments are welcome.

 

[Elizium23]

The answer is not quite clear here, because although she has posted a copyright notice on that page, she has also clearly granted a license of free distribution by making it available for download. What I would suggest, just to dot your i’s and cross your t’s, is to write an email to her and ask for explicit permission. I don’t see why she wouldn’t grant it.

“It is easier to ask permission than forgiveness”.

 

[Ana_v]

To make things more complicated:

I recently purchased (in that, the money was in my possession, and I completed the transaction), a pack of blank CDs from Target, but these were for my dad – his money, I’m just the physically went to the store to buy them.

He won’t have a problem with me using the CD’s. The question is, who is consider the legal owner (for the purposes of the question in my original post)?

 

[Ana_v]

The answer is not quite clear here, because although she has posted a copyright notice on that page, she has also clearly granted a license of free distribution by making it available for download. What I would suggest, just to dot your i’s and cross your t’s, is to write an email to her and ask for explicit permission. I don’t see why she wouldn’t grant it.

“It is easier to ask permission than forgiveness”.

I wrote my second post before I read yours (though since I tend to be analytical, I’m still interested in knowing the implications of the information in that second post)

Your suggestion is that safe route. Thanks.